Unfortunately the editors have
not as yet found it possible to prepare and publish a complete
analytical index to the articles and documents that have appeared
in the approximately 4,000 pages comprising the first twenty
volumes of Studies and Rec-ords. It is hoped that ultimately
such an index will be made available. Meanwhile, we trust that
the present classified list of materials published in this series
since 1926 will be a helpful guide. Its usefulness may prove
to be negative as well as positive. It lists studies in the
range of bibliography and research; biography; church and religion;
community and region; education and scholarship; the emigrant
journey; immigrant journals, let-ters, and memoirs; immigration
and assimilation; literature, art, and verse; newspapers; the
Association’s program and policies; politics; the area comprising
the Rocky Mountains, the west coast, Canada, and Alaska; and
technology.

In these several classifications and as a whole, the items here
listed constitute a substantial addition to the historiography
of American immigration and more particularly to the story of
the Norwegian immigrant in our national life. At the same time,
however, such a classification inevitably reveals areas largely
un-exploited yet rich in potentialities for further research
and publi-cation. Some idea of the possibilities that face us
may be had by comparing the present list, and indeed all the
forty volumes issued by the Association thus far, with ideas
for the future as sketched in the article entitled “The Second
Twenty-five Years,” published in volume 17. The editors will
welcome suggestions of topics for consideration as we enter
upon the second score of vol-umes in the present series. Documents
of interest and signifi-cance, given appropriate editorial setting;
essays on aspects of immigrant history to which little attention
has been devoted; new interpretations traversing old and familiar
chapters in the larger story; biographical and bibliographical
studies and guides to such contributions these volumes offer
the sanctuary of print and permanence. Ed.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES. Materials in the National Archives Relat-ing
to the Scandinavian Countries. 13:163-170 (1943). 5
A report compiled in the office of the director of reference
service in the National Archives at Washington.

ROHNE, J. MAGNUS. The Historical Value of Church Records.
3:73-81 (1928). 37
-----trans. and ed. Report of the Annual Meeting of the
Haugean Churches Held at Lisbon, Illinois, in June, 1854.
4:15-42 (1929). 38

STEPHENSON, GEORGE M. Norwegian-American Church History.
2:104-109 (1927). 39

PAULSON, ARTHUR C., and BJORK, KENNETH 0., trans. and ed.
A School and Language Controversy in 1858: A Documentary
Study. 10:76-106 (1938). 68
Letters to Emigranten on the common-school controversy, written
by Rasmus Sørensen, A. C. Preus, and a man who used
the pseudonym of Jacob Andersen Loftstuen.

GASMANN, JOHAN. From New York to Wisconsin in 1844. 5 :30-49
(1930). 73
Translated and edited by Carlton C. Qualey.

JACOBSON, CLARA. A Journey to America in the Fifties. 12:60-78
(1941). 74

LARSON, HENRIETTA, trans. and ed. An Immigration Journey
to America in 1854. 3:58-64 (1928). 75
A letter written by Ole Olsen Østerud in 1854.
-----The Sinking of the “Atlantic” on Lake Erie. 4:92-98
(1929). 76
Excerpts from a letter written in 1852 by Erik Thorstad.

BLEGEN, THEODORE C. The Immigrant Image of America. 19:1-14
(1956). 92
The opening chapter of Land of Their Choice: The Immigrants
Write Home, published by the University of Minnesota Press
in 1955.

BØE, A. SOPHIE, trans. and ed. Emigration as Viewed
by a Nor-wegian Student of Agriculture in 1850: A. Budde’s
“From a Letter about America.” 3:43-57 (1928). 93
With an introduction by Theodore C. Blegen.